Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Ravitz v. Fox
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided December 19, 1980No. 14770PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McGraw, Justice:
In this original prohibition proceeding, the relator, Melvyn Ravitz, seeks an order prohibiting the respondent, Fred L. Fox, II, sitting specially as Judge of the Monongalia County Circuit Court, from proceeding further upon a motion by relator’s former wife for review and modification of a divorce decree.
The facts are not in dispute. Melvyn (husband) and Judy (wife) Ravitz were divorced by a decree of the Circuit Court of Monongalia County entered in October 1975. Throughout the divorce proceedings and at the time of the entry of the decree, both parties were residents of…
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